Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-11
FLORIDA.
Seville Is to have public school.

| FLORIDA.
| Seville Is to have public school.
! Court convenes at Enterprise to-day.
The ladies OF Manatee are going to
complete the side walks OF that place.
Lake City is destined at an early day to
/ become the tobacco centre in Florida.
The spring term OF the Circuit Court
/ Tor Gadsden county will begin to-day.
| J. r. Alexander will be a candidate for
/ Mayor Of Enterprise at the municipal
/ election on May "A.
| While attempting to draw water from
| the spring q Juvenile member Of the
! Italian colony at Clinch, Clay county,
( was drowned recently.
! Theold orange groves in Volusie county
/ have put on very fair crop Of fruit, hut
! those groves just coming into bearing
! 0loomed bat very little.
| Il ire broke out in the woods Monday
and damaged property in the north Of
! OGDEN. and ali hands turned out to pro-
I tect buildings at Mr.. simmons place.
! The Florida Methodist. now published
4 at Mt. Dora, is TO be removed to Orange
/ CITY. 1t is owned and edited by Rev. w.
/ ;. Fitch, the recently elected President
of the Methodist Episcopal College,
| The municipal officials Of Green Cove
| Springs were elected this year without
| opposition, except the two Aldermen. In
/ that case the fight was between native
4 and new conner, and the native won,
| The County Commissioners are In SEES
/ sion this week and are considering the
| ACCESSIBILITY of erecting a $4,000 court
/ house in Pine Level. Proposals will
/ probably be received at the next meeting
| of the board.
! Mr.. Wilhelm, OF Arcadia, is the posses
| sOr Of chicken that Is certainly curl
1 osity. This chicken has four perfect,
| we'll formed legs, two ir front and two on
its back. 1t is but 10 days old and as
| lively as cricket.
Quite an important transaction for
| Lake City took place last week. w. H.
| Perry sold his twenty-acre tract of land
to a gentleman from Clearwater Harbor
| for $4,000, The purchaser intends to
start a cigar factory soon.
| Mayor Teasdale, OF Palatka, has mott
! fed all the merchants that the ordinance
| relating to the closing OF stores on Sunday
| will be rigidlY enforced, and that here
after nothing except drugs would be al
lowed to be sold on Sunday.
Manager DuvaI, OF the Florida Rail-
| way and Navigation. informed Mr.. Geer
last week that $50, 900 would be placed in
| Columbia county to be advanced reliable
| farmers on their tobacco for expenses in
growing IL, drying sheds, etc.
DeLeon Springs Courier: Near Spring
Garden depot, on Thursday evening last,
hail stones as large as BIRDS eggs fell to
the depth of eight inches. The next morn
ing some Of the stones were brought to
this Office, still az large as hazel nuts.
Six hundred bales of cotton, valued at
$50, 900, were shipped from Waldo during
the past season. There we're shipped dur
ing the past season nearly 20, 900 crates OF
| In. -
| grapes, Peen-to peaches and other fruits
Will amount TO about $40, 900 if no disas-
ter befalls the present crop.
Il. j. n. Porter has sold his grove at
| Grasmere to a Mr.. Paul, PittsburE
(Pa.) capitalist, for $4,000. 1t is also
understood that it is MIR. Porter's inten-
tion to remove TO the new town Of Mont
verde, on the T., A. aud G. road. where
he engages in the real estate business in
connection with his son, w. |. Porter.
Thlrty-eIght thousand acres OF land in
the Arredondo grant have just been placed
| on tue market by the government. The
land lies principally in Columbia county,
and north from Lake City. Fifteen thou
sand acres of the land is open to home
stead entries, and general rush of busI-
ness at the United States Land Office IL
predicted.
Wsllman has the matter under con-
| sideration OF removing his saw mill from
DeLaud to some point GA the Blue Spring,
Orange City and ASantic railway be-
! yond Deep creek. There is q fine tract of
timber there, and the supply Is mex.
baustible, and saw mill could do a
great business in furnishing lumber to
the coast people.
Friday the steamer Stella, Capt. w, II.
| NOrthrup, took down 10 Pensacola
from Ferry Pass tow containing 3,OST
pieces Of sawn and $40 pieces Of hewn
timber, 1897 pieces in all. The raft
! measured from end to end $3.50 feet, be.
| ing exactly $50 feet more that n mile In
| length. 1t was tue largest tow of tim bar
ever taken through the EscamDia
| bridge.
A meeting OF voters, without regard 10
party, was held at Green Cove Spring on
Wednesday night to nominate candidates
for Jhe municipal Offices TO be flied at
| the election to-day. A null list OF
candidates was selected, the most OF
whom will meet with no opposition.
| Some dissatisfaction exists, however.
with some OF the nominations, and it is
probable that another ticket will be
brought forward.
| Orange county officials Kre in hot water
! at present with nonresident property
owners. The Offices OF assessor and col.
/
almost impossible for non-residents 20
yet receipts for taxes paid and their In
quiries answered concerning their as
sessmeuts. Property on whIoh taxes
/ nave been paid regularly for twenty
/ years Is advertised fog SAFE and the
names OF tue owners puJ on the deln-
| Queut list.
Capt. Graves has completed the ship
ment OF the orange crop from his Sanford
grove. The grove yielded 800 boxes, and
Judging from his returns 50 far the crop
~ bringing MIN 81 70 per box on the tree.
| He received this week check for $3.50 for
"A shipment Of 1870 boxes to Baltimore
about two weeks ago. II the shippers
had dared TO RISK their oranges going
through the winter without freezing a
great many would have received the.
handsome prices for which the fruit is
now selling.
". II. Clay, OF Quincy has curiosity
IN petrihed egg, found 10y him on the
Nicholson farm, near the Georgia line.
about nineteen years ago. When found
II was embedded In a large sandstone,
ana In loossning IL piece was split fr m
the snail end, winch disclosed perfect
yOlk. IL ia Impossible to tell how long
The egg had remained where found, but
10 IL probable that several centuries have
elapsed since It was deposited in It's